Tuesday 12 January 2010

The Droste Effect


The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on.

The effect is named after a particular image that appeared on the tins and boxes of Droste cocoa powder, a brand from the Netherlands. Here are some examples of the Droste Effect.

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